Environment Management
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Environmental problems are becoming serious day by day because of the interacting effects of increasing population density, industrialization and urbanization, and poor environmental management practices. Environment Management is, thus the management of interaction by the modern human societies with, and impact upon the environment.
The continuing degradation of the natural environment poses one of the greatest challenges to modern societies. All human, but in particular all industrial, activities create a burden on the environment although paradoxically at the same time the revenues gained from these activities create the basis for our well-being. Major problems include global warming, loss of biodiversity, water and air pollution, releases of persistent organic pollutants and other toxic substances, and land degradation including coastal erosion.
Good environmental management brings many benefits:
• Consistent with our company values of being brave, imaginative and decent
• Improved environmental and reputational risk management
• Cost savings
• Meeting stakeholder expectations of what constitutes a well run, responsible
business
• Ensuring compliance with relevant environmental laws, regulations and codes
• Reflects our commitment as a signatory to the Global Compact principles on
labour standards, human rights, environmental responsibility and combating
corruption
ISO 14001:2004 specifies requirements for an Environmental Management System to enable an organization to develop and implement a policy and objectives which take into account legal requirements and other requirements to which the organization subscribes, and information about significant environmental aspects. It applies to those environmental aspects that the organization identifies as those which it can control and those which it can influence. It does not itself state specific environmental performance criteria.
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